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Maroon and Gold
Thursday, April 16, 1970
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Take A Look At Your
Environment
«I nDif froiTi cats —
A sudden awareness of our environment and its
problems may be too late. Man for centuries has
drained this country of its resources with little
thought of replenishment. After the transformation of
the resources into products, he can*t dispose of them.
' The various problems of pollution, smoke, pesticides,
waste paper, and oil slicked oceans, have reached
monumental heights. We now desperately try to undo
what we have done.
We as the human race,find it difficult to concern
ourselves with any problem of mankind until the pro
blem actually threatens our very existance. ™™^n
nature probably won't change with the arrival of this
threat, but possibly our awareness and concern win.
All of this has been said before, but too many of us
wish the problem away, and to others the problem seems
far off and foreign. It is hoped that these scenes trom
your own community will stimulate concern.
REPRINTED FROM LOOK
"Earth Day, April 22
marks a time of warn
ing. We are fouling our
streams, lakes, marsh
es. The sea is next.
We are burying ourselves
under 7 million scrap
ped cars, 30 million
tons of waste paper, 48
billion discarded cans and
28 billion bottles and jars
a year. A million tons
more of garbage pile up
each day.
The air we breathe cir
cles the earth 40 times
a year, and America con
tributes 140 million tons
of pollutants: 90 million
from cars — we bup
more gasoline than the
rest of the world com
bined — 15 million from
electric - power genera
tion, one - third of the
world’s total.
Lead in San Diego s
air gets deposited in lay
ers on the Pacific. LA
smog may cause mass
deaths in 1975. Noise
straining our lives, dou
bles in volume every ten
years. There are 5,500
Americans born each day;
100 million more by 2000.
We already consume and
waste more than any other
people.
We flatten our hills.
fill our bays, blitz our
wilderness. The quality
drains from our lives: I
am one-twenty-millionth
of a swelling megalopolis.
On Earth Day, Amer
icans young and old are
coming together for a na
tional teach - in to talk
about our wrecked eanh.
Environmental Action,
a group of fired-up college
kids, is coordinating the
teach-in. But after Earth
Day, the talk and warn
ing end, because the fight
to SAVE AMERICA starts
now.”
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